[Dovecot] Maildir/mbox on a per-user basis

J Moore jaymo at cullmail.com
Wed Dec 1 21:44:38 EET 2004


On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:41:02PM -0500, the unit calling itself Jon Nathan wrote:

<re-structured for clarity>

> > Just out of curiosity, why would you want to use both formats for 
> > storage?
>
> Some of the users have personal preferences.  We default to mbox,
> but some people would rather use Maildir.  They take care of delivery
> to the Maildirs on their own (with procmail recipes) and take
> advantage of certain features (subfolders).

Isn't maildir format required to support imap clients?

Jay




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